Petrichor - Time Travel To Mahabharat Era

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Vaishnavi immediately ran towards the cloth, which was inside the raging fire. She went through the flames, did not care about her burning in it, only for the fire to back away from her. She shot an accusing look at Krishna and said, "What is this Kanha? Why did you do this?". To which Krishna replied, "I thought you didn't want anything in life, which is materialistic. So I respected that and threw the most important thing of yours to burn".

She shook her head in disbelief and said, "No! This should not happen! This-", as she was saying, she noticed that the purple cloth alone was taming down the fire, which hundreds of blankets, a huge gust of wind and gallons of water could not. A single piece of cloth, given to her by her love. Slowly, it managed to extinguish the entire fire, which was her determination.

She soon realised that that one single handkerchief had more power than her determination. That her love for that one Kaunteya was purer than anything.

As soon as the fire got extinguished, every woman in her family ran towards her to hug her. She soon passed out, just thinking of one person in her mind.

'Arjun!'

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After a very long time, she felt cozy and comfortable after waking up. It all felt like nostalgia. She saw that she was still in her saffron clothes. She got up on her elbows and looked around to see if anyone is with her. As she made sure no one was with her, she got up from the bed to stretch her hands and legs. Surprisingly, she didn't feel any pain, neither injuries nor exhaustion. She went towards her dresser and took the purple cloth, which was soaked in different colours in a plate. She took it in her hands and kept it near her heart and closed her eyes. "I thought I lost you!", she said to that cloth and kissed it, which she considers more than her own life.

"How would you lose it, if I am the one who takes care of it, Sakhi?", Krishna entered with Jalebis in his hand, her most favourite dessert. She turned her face away from him and started to walk away from him. "Really Sakhi? I thought you were immune to any kind of emotions! I thought you wouldn't be angry at me!", he told innocently.

She shot up her head and said, "But this is not it, Kanha! Its- it's more dearer than my own life! How can you do this?". Krishna smiled at her and said, "So, You do have a trigger point, Ishwari! Your trigger point is Parth! You like him, don't you?".

She looked at him dumbfounded and said, "Wh- What are you talki-", but he gave her a teasing look. Giving up, she admitted to him, while taking the plate filled with colours and unable to look at him, "What to hide from you, O Ananta! I love him. I love him more than anything! So much so that I gave up on merging with the Paramatma himself. But- But I don't know how this all happened!", she said with a confused expression, playing with the colors on the plate.

Krishna chuckled and kept his hand on her head and made her sit on the couch, "Ishwari, Love doesn't need thousands of years to happen! All it needs is just a second!". She looked up at him and asked, "Why are you calling me Ishwari, Kanha?". He shot an unimpressed expression at her and said, "You don't know?", and slightly hit her head. She bit her tongue and apologized to him.

"What? Why is he calling you that?", Balram entered the scene and both of them looked at him. They shared a look among themselves and decided to pull his leg. Vaishnavi started with an innocent expression, "Oh that! I know the reason Dau!". He asked her, "How did you know the reason?".

She smiled at him and said, "I remembered everything, Dau! I realised it as soon as I started to levitate up in the air". Balram became interested in the conversation and sat beside her, keeping his hand on his knees and asked, "Ah! And?". Both Vaishnavi and Krishna looked at each other and said, "And!! Holi hai!!!", Vaishnavi screamed and covered his whole face with colour.

He rubbed his eyes and turned towards Krishna to complain, only to get covered by colour again from him. Balram kept his hands on his hips, and gave them a stern look. He was going out of the room, making Krishna and Vaishnavi's face fall. But soon, he took some colour from the plate and splattered on their faces.

They held an amused expression but soon laughed together. They started chasing each other, and encountered Rukmini and Revati. Both the gods applied colour to their respective wives and ran from them. Vaishnavi was standing there holding the colour plate, and both the women looked at her accusingly. She held one of her ears and gave an apologetic look. Both ladies shared a look and burst into laughter while they rubbed colours on Ishwari's face.

Vaishnavi gasped and laughed at the same time, while her sisters in law hugged her tightly. They were really happy that their sweetheart is back again. They nodded at each other and chased Balram and Krishna. As they reached near them, they were ready with colours in their hand and threw on them. But just then, they swerved it and it fell on Vasudev and Devaki. Now everyone stopped at where they are, and started running from each other. Soon, Satyabhama and Jambavati joined too, playing with Vaishnavi.

She was hiding behind her parents, pleading Satyabhama not to smear colour on her. Subhadra from behind, applied colour on her, making her chase them all.

Both Vasudev and Devaki saw that their daughter's saffron monotoned dress is now back to being filled with colours and were having tears in their eyes. She went towards Krishna to smear colour on his face and as she applied colour, he covered her face with a cloth, running away. All of them was chasing him now and she held onto a wall for support as she couldn't see anything.

She took out the cloth from her face and saw that it's her Purple cloth. Smiling, she looked at mirror nearby to clean her face, just to see a red dot was on her face, like a bindi, caused by the cloth.

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